Sigh. Strum. Strum strum strum. Sing. Sigh. Isn’t life hard? In Alexandra McGuinness‘ feature debut, Lotus Eaters, it sure looks like it, though it also looks plenty pretty. The Dublin-born, London-based filmmaker’s film centers on a group of young, hip, and hot Londoners who are all struggling mighty hard with some big problems and obsessions (like drink, drugs, and heartache). Ain’t that always the way? The film’s cast includes a bunch of rising British stars, including Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Benn Northover, Liam Browne, Jay Choi, Daisy Lewis, and our strummer himself - Johnny Flynn, who is (of course) also the frontman for the folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit. Sigh. Strum. Rinse. Repeat. Soak in some champagne-drenched bourgeois ennui with the first trailer for Lotus Eaters, after the break. Lotus Eaters will open the film in New York on April 5th, with expansion to Los Angeles and VOD on April 12th. [Thompson on Hollywood]...
- 3/20/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Set on the edge of a rundown industrial town in north-east England, this low-budget British movie sets out to be a "Last Tango on Teesside". A young couple, archly named Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry) and Manchester (Liam Browne), have created a private, prelapsarian world in a lock-up garage. As uninhibited as they are well-endowed, they walk around naked making love day and night. He's an amateur photographer (mainly recording their erotic activities), she's a taxidermist, and they support themselves by shoplifting. But one drunken night Manchester leaves a packet of sexy photographs in a pub, which (you wouldn't Adam and Eve it) are discovered by a rich local pornographer, or "erotologist" as he calls himself. He penetrates their private Eden, offers an apple in the form of a wad of money, and within minutes Manchester's photographs are being exhibited in an art gallery, acclaimed for their wonderful lack of technique,...
- 11/14/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The premise of this sexually explicit debut might be a bit implausible, but there's no faulting the performances, writes Peter Bradshaw
There are some unrealities and implausibilities in this sexually explicit film from first-time feature director Ashley Horner, yet it's made interesting by the physically and emotionally exhibitionistic, on- and, in fact, over-the-edge performances by Nancy Trotter Landry and Liam Browne. They are Noon, a would-be taxidermist madly in love with Manchester, a photography student who lives in a terrible lock-up garage where the couple have steamy penetrative sex 24 hours out of 24. Manchester is into photographing Leah while they're having sex, and the pictures fall into the hands of a somewhat unlikely porn baron who's looking to move into some sort of sub-Saatchi, upmarket-museum-quality erotica. He persuades Manchester to let him take over his career, and Manchester's interest in Noon's body becomes ever more manipulative and obsessive; he shows himself...
There are some unrealities and implausibilities in this sexually explicit film from first-time feature director Ashley Horner, yet it's made interesting by the physically and emotionally exhibitionistic, on- and, in fact, over-the-edge performances by Nancy Trotter Landry and Liam Browne. They are Noon, a would-be taxidermist madly in love with Manchester, a photography student who lives in a terrible lock-up garage where the couple have steamy penetrative sex 24 hours out of 24. Manchester is into photographing Leah while they're having sex, and the pictures fall into the hands of a somewhat unlikely porn baron who's looking to move into some sort of sub-Saatchi, upmarket-museum-quality erotica. He persuades Manchester to let him take over his career, and Manchester's interest in Noon's body becomes ever more manipulative and obsessive; he shows himself...
- 11/12/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Illusionist and Ben Miller's directing debut, Huge, are two of the gems this year
Magicians don't exist is the forlorn message of Sylvain Chomet's beautiful animation The Illusionist, which opened the 64th Edinburgh international film festival. I should think film festival organisers often reach a similarly prosaic conclusion, for they can only work with what's in front of them. But the collection of films on show this year has certainly got some style about it, if not quite magic.
After complaining for the past few years about Edinburgh holding its gala nights in the unattractive multiplex on the edge of town, I was delighted with the transformation of the lovely old Festival theatre on Nicolson Street into an atmospheric cinema. It gave the opening night a real flourish, complete with dancing girls in feathers, a brass band and moustached mime-artists performing magic.
The Illusionist, the follow-up to the director's award-winning Belleville Rendez-Vous,...
Magicians don't exist is the forlorn message of Sylvain Chomet's beautiful animation The Illusionist, which opened the 64th Edinburgh international film festival. I should think film festival organisers often reach a similarly prosaic conclusion, for they can only work with what's in front of them. But the collection of films on show this year has certainly got some style about it, if not quite magic.
After complaining for the past few years about Edinburgh holding its gala nights in the unattractive multiplex on the edge of town, I was delighted with the transformation of the lovely old Festival theatre on Nicolson Street into an atmospheric cinema. It gave the opening night a real flourish, complete with dancing girls in feathers, a brass band and moustached mime-artists performing magic.
The Illusionist, the follow-up to the director's award-winning Belleville Rendez-Vous,...
- 6/19/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 1.5/5
Directors: Ashley Horner
Cast: Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter Landry
The conceit of Brilliantlove is simple: Love can not be challenged until something comes along to test its strength. If a perfect world is created around two people, whether intentional or unintentional, they can exist inside a bubble filled with life and surroundings of their choosing; an environment that only compliments their relationship with nothing to undermine it and nothing to cheapen it. There’s a real beauty knowing that it can still be possible to be so wrapped around someone that you don’t know where they end and you begin. Oh, and the sex is great, too.
Read more on Tribeca 2010 Review: Brilliantlove…...
Directors: Ashley Horner
Cast: Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter Landry
The conceit of Brilliantlove is simple: Love can not be challenged until something comes along to test its strength. If a perfect world is created around two people, whether intentional or unintentional, they can exist inside a bubble filled with life and surroundings of their choosing; an environment that only compliments their relationship with nothing to undermine it and nothing to cheapen it. There’s a real beauty knowing that it can still be possible to be so wrapped around someone that you don’t know where they end and you begin. Oh, and the sex is great, too.
Read more on Tribeca 2010 Review: Brilliantlove…...
- 5/4/2010
- by Drew Tinnin
- GordonandtheWhale
Year: 2010
Directors: Ashley Horner
Writers: Sean Conway
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 4 out of 10
Brilliantlove tells the story of Manchester (Liam Browne) and Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry)—two super insignificant hipster twenty-somethings—who are madly in love with one another, have sex every five seconds, live in a garage in a dilapidated countryside, steal from the local grocer who’s just trying to make a living, and say the word “pussy” a lot. So, what you’ve got here is a film about bourgeois gentrifiers, stealing from the working class, as they try far too hard to be “real” and intense while they look for their next pair of skinny jeans. In essence, they suck.
The plot is even more yawn-able: Boy-hipster takes silly and pretentious photos of his lover when she’s naked, when she’s sleeping, and when she’s taxiderming. (Did you know...
Directors: Ashley Horner
Writers: Sean Conway
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 4 out of 10
Brilliantlove tells the story of Manchester (Liam Browne) and Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry)—two super insignificant hipster twenty-somethings—who are madly in love with one another, have sex every five seconds, live in a garage in a dilapidated countryside, steal from the local grocer who’s just trying to make a living, and say the word “pussy” a lot. So, what you’ve got here is a film about bourgeois gentrifiers, stealing from the working class, as they try far too hard to be “real” and intense while they look for their next pair of skinny jeans. In essence, they suck.
The plot is even more yawn-able: Boy-hipster takes silly and pretentious photos of his lover when she’s naked, when she’s sleeping, and when she’s taxiderming. (Did you know...
- 4/30/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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